re: The Service Dog Epidemic is Out of Hand

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Honest question. What benefits does a service animal provide to a diabetic?

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Honest answer. A diabetic gives off some kind of smell when a persons blood sugars start to get out of control. Diabetic Alert Dogs are trained to respond to this smell when blood sugars start to rise or drop to dangerous levels.

I have an issue where I don't digest food normally and my blood sugars drop rapidly. My dog helps keep me aware of when these episodes start. Before I got my dog, I had a couple of low blood sugars issues out in public. Back in June of 2010, I took my wife to the Portland Airport so she could fly home to see her parents for Father's Day. After she went thru security, I had a low blood sugar episode while I was still at the airport. A little over an hour later, I started to mentally fade in and out enough to realize that I was on the floor and handcuffed with six Portland Police Officers and a Police Dog around me.

I had blacked out and wandered around the airport and according to the responding police officers, I had tried to gain access into a secure location of the airport and then started a fight with a couple of TSA agents. I have had a couple other incidents as well. Funny now, not so funny then.

So, in a nutshell, I still have times where my blood sugars get out of control, but not to the extent that I use to have before I got my dog.

This is why I got a little mouthy in some of my previous posts. My dog is very important to me and she serves an extremely important service.

Let me add a funny little part to my airport story. Paramedics are called. They check my blood sugar, readings are in the high 20's, cops are asking paramedics questions about the way I was acting before I was handcuffed, cop with the K-9 isn't paying any attention to his dog, dog starts licking my forearm like crazy, cop seems to get pissed at the dog for showing a little compassion instead of being a trained killer, all the other cops laugh at the dog, cop with the dog drags it out of the airport and leaves. We all have a good belly-laugh and go about our day. Fun times!

The owners are worse than vegans on the attention whore totem pole

Bruh, you should go to San Francisco. Every dog is a service dog.

frick you.

People on here get mad about the strangest things. Who cares if someone has a service dog. Move on with your life

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You think we can just whip out a sensing device as fine tuned as a dog's nose?

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yes

When we have air gas monitors that can measure in ppb, I think we can make such a device.

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Seizure dogs works in the same manner. Research has shown that diabetic and seizure dogs are born with a unique ability to sense the change in human condition that occurs before a diabetic or seizure episode. Some dogs have been known to alert as much as 12 hours in advance giving a patient time to take medication or seek medical help.

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The things that service dogs are capable of doing are downright amazing.

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People on here get mad about the strangest things. Who cares if someone has a service dog. Move on with your life

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I don't think anyone has anything against service dogs in general. I love dogs.

But a fekking Great Dane? And the enormous "Service Dog" must come into Starbucks or else her life is in risk? Gimmie a break.

I love her stare in the 1st one

I'd bet money that the dog got one of those doggie doggachinos that SBs gives dags.

Service dogs fly free right?

Why the hell cant I claim my wife as my "service woman?"

I can say I have a fear or depression that she helps me with.

It actually makes more sense than a freaking dog helping you cope with fear/depression

Not reading all 8 pages, so somebody probably beat me to it.... looking at the pics of that heifer with her "service dog," I'm thinking that the dog gets a good dose of bacon grease or peanut butter served to it from her crotch.